Install Cassandra on Ubuntu 16.04 and Run a Single-Node Cassandra Cluster on Ubuntu

Cassandra is (also known as Apache Cassandra) an open-source distributed database management system, it was developed to handle large amounts of data across commodity hardware or cloud infrastructure. Cassandra provides high availability with no single point of failure.

Cassandra supports linear scalability by adding a new machine to it with no downtime or interruption to applications, also increases Read and Write throughput of the Cassandra.

Every Cassandra node in the cluster will have the same role. Data is distributed across the cluster which means each node holds different data. Cassandra supports replication and multi-data center replication for redundancy, failover, and disaster recovery.

In this article, I’ll show you how to install Cassandra on Ubuntu 16.04 and configure it to run a single node cluster.